On Sunday’s Meet The Press, NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell admonished President Barack Obama for his controversial remarks about the Crusades and missteps of religions outside of Islam at the National Prayer Breakfast. Ms. Mitchell told host Chuck Todd and co-panelist and New York Times columnist David Brooks that Obama needs to deal with the issues of today without leaning over backwards to invoke the “sins of the fathers.”

MITCHELL: You don’t use the word Crusades, number one, in any context right now. It’s just it’s too fraught. And the week after a pilot is burned alive, in a video shown, you don’t lean over backwards to be philosophical about the sins of the fathers. You have to deal with the issue that’s in front of you or don’t deal with it at all. Talk about faith.

TODD: There are a lot of politicians, conservative politicians, who invoke religion when talking about fighting ISIS.

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MITCHELL: But he’s the president. He’s the president and you can’t really go back to 1095.

TODD: You think he made a mistake?

MITCHELL: I do, because it’s so out of context and it is so much in passing. If you’re giving a major speech about theology, perhaps. But this is the prayer breakfast. And remember, you know, the context of that. It’s very limited.